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The QC, Vol. 88, No. 18 • February 28, 2002

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The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
February 28,2002
QUAKER CAMPUS
http://web.whittier.edu/qc
Town Hall meeting
brainstorms new ideas
FORUM
by Amy Stice
QC Editor-in-Chief
Inspired by a group of students'
complaints to the College's Safety
Committee last Friday, Feb. 22, a
"town hall" meeting was held in the
Student Union on Wednesday, Feb.
27. The event was attended by only
two of the original concerned students—first-year student Emily
Moorehead and first-year COR
Member At-Large Jessica Roble-
do—who had approached the committee to discuss the recent attempted fire escape break-in at Wanberg
Residence Hall [see QC Issue 17]
and other campus security issues.
Wednesday's discussion centered around issues like Campus
Safety response time to fire alarms
in the residence halls. First-year
student Virginia Sapiro questioned
incessant alarms in Ball Residence
Hall, a result of work being done
with the alarms due to on-campus
construction, Chief of Campus Safety Bernard Alex said. She also called
Alex's attention to the slow response
time of officers to these alarms.
"If no one in Campus Safety is
taking [the alarms] as seriously as
we want them to take it, students
start lagging," one of the two resident advisors present, junior
Danielle Crawford, said.
The meeting turned to brainstorming potential solutions to
Campus Safety shortcomings; students suggested increased self-defense training, more call boxes on
campus and adding phones to isolated areas, such as the laundry
room in the Ball Hall basement.
The meeting only briefly addressed the impetus for the gathering—students' allegations that the
attempted break-in had been mishandled by Campus Safety.
After first-year student Kristin
Oase described to the committee
her relationship with the crime—
she and her roommate were witnesses and their friend called Campus Safety, which allegedly told
her to "go outside and get a description" of the suspect—Alex
took the group of students away
from the meeting to answer their
questions. Concerns centered
around the general public not being notified about the criminal attempt, a charge to which Alex responded that Campus Safety considered the action a prank, not a
threat to the community.
"No student was confronted,
no property was stolen," Alex said,
emphasizing that, regardless, the
incident was a crime and that Campus Safety suspects students because the perpetrators ran away
through the campus.
"Just because they're college
students doesn't mean it's less of a
threat," Oase responded.
The women also expressed
concern that after the fire escapes
were pulled down by the would-be
intruders, it took four days for them
to be returned to their proper positions. Alex said that the damage
was such that a specialist had to be
called in to fix them.
Executive Director of Human
Resources and Administrative Services Jan Merideth suggested that
the campus' communication had
lapsed, and called the town meeting in response.
Clubs to enjoy 61% of
requested finances
FUNDING
by Eva Sevcikova
QC News Editor
Nearly $44,400 was allocated
to clubs and organizations, including two independent entities, during a Council of Representatives
(COR) block funding meeting on
Monday, Feb. 25, satisfying over
61% of the clubs' financial needs.
For the first time, independent
funding was introduced, allowing
students and groups who are not
represented by an official campus
club, to request money to cover
their expenses, according to senior
COR Treasurer Prithvi Nobuth. As
the two examples of independent
funding requests, Flag Football was
allocated $1,307 while the Track
and Field Team walked away with
zero dollars.
Tossed salad
From spies to vaginas,
from fashion to Olympics,
Opinions has it all.
Opinions, Page 2
"According to the new rules,
individual students no longer have
to be members of an organized
club," Nobuth stated, adding that
COR wants to encourage people to
come forward with new ideas. "We
hope that this policy will make it
easier for people to come to COR to
ask for money."
Nobuth was very satisfied with
the results of the meeting. "This is
the largest dollar amount allocated
to clubs over the past three years,"
he said. " We also got a record high
number of clubs requesting money,
including eight new clubs."
"With such a demand for money, it is hard to satisfy everyone,"
junior COR President Jess Craven
said about the result of the meeting.
"COR is not the endless well that
some people think it is."
The Inter-Residence Hall Association (I.R.H.A.), which requested over $ 10,000, received zero dol
lars.
The decision not to allocate
money to I.R.H.A. was informed by
the fact that there is still about $8,000
left in the I.R.H.A. account, according to Nobuth. "Once [they are]
done spending their money, we will
give them more," he said. "But by
the end of the semester, they won't
be able to spend what they have,
and we didn't want to penalize other clubs by holding up $ 10,000. We
view dorm improvement as very
important and [I.R.H.A.] is more
than welcome to come and ask for
money in the future," Nobuth said.
Sophomore I.R.H.A. Representative to COR Marko Stankic understands the philosophy behind this
decision. "It is not a sign that COR
is not supporting us," he stressed.
"They do; although, I would have
enjoyed a small sign of financial
See FUNDING, page 6
REBECCA W0LF/QC MANAGING EDITOR
Listening device
discovered in
the QC office
CRIME
by Rebecca Wolf
QC Managing Editor
A maintenance worker discovered an electronic eavesdropping
device inside an electrical outlet
behind a sofa in the Quaker Campus (QC) newspaper office Thursday, Feb. 21.
Maintenance searched all outlets and light switches in the QC
on Monday, Feb. 25 and on Tuesday, Feb. 26, the outlets in the
Student Union and the offices of
the Council of Representatives
(COR), the Acropolis and Whittier College Radio were searched.
Director of Student Activities
Barnaby Peake also searched the
phones in the QC office on
Wednesday, but no other devices
were found.
There are no suspects or leads
as to who placed the device or
why it was placed.
"As far as I know, this is the
first 'bug' confirmed in a student
newspaper office," Mike Heistand
of the Student Press Law Center
based in Washington D.C. said in
the College Media Advisor's online message board.
The maintenance department
and the Security and Spy Outlet
store in Puente Hills believed the
device was homemade using parts
bought at a local store and took no
more than 10 minutes to install
inside the QC. However, Private
Investigator Thomas Barnes of Thomas Barnes and Associates in
Whittier said that the device was
too intricate to be homemade.
"[The device] works like a
mini FM radio station," said an
employee of the spy outlet store,
who wished to be identified only
as "Paul." "Whoever built it could
have been listening live or could
have set up a tape recorder to
record everything to listen to later."
According to Paul, the device
was designed to last no more than
a year because the individual components would burn out. He tested
the device at the store but it did
not work, and he believes the device was not functioning at the
time it was discovered.
"We don't yet know why that
device was there," said Barnes, a
retired detective. "There would
be no lawful reason, because anything recorded would not be admissible [in court]... it's definitely illegal."
The Whittier Police Department (W.P.D.) was called to the
scene on Monday but initially
chose not to file a report because
of a lack of any real leads. However, after pressure from local councilman Bob Henderson, W.P.D.
Chief David Singer said that there
See DEVICE, page 6
ISSUE 18 • VOLUME 88
Intimate desires
Secret confessions of daters,
losers and the devil himself.
Campus Life, Page 9
It's here!
Check out Britney Spears'
excellent adventure.
A&E, Page 13
LAX dominates
A team that keeps winning. We
really like that.
Sports, Page 16

The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
February 28,2002
QUAKER CAMPUS
http://web.whittier.edu/qc
Town Hall meeting
brainstorms new ideas
FORUM
by Amy Stice
QC Editor-in-Chief
Inspired by a group of students'
complaints to the College's Safety
Committee last Friday, Feb. 22, a
"town hall" meeting was held in the
Student Union on Wednesday, Feb.
27. The event was attended by only
two of the original concerned students—first-year student Emily
Moorehead and first-year COR
Member At-Large Jessica Roble-
do—who had approached the committee to discuss the recent attempted fire escape break-in at Wanberg
Residence Hall [see QC Issue 17]
and other campus security issues.
Wednesday's discussion centered around issues like Campus
Safety response time to fire alarms
in the residence halls. First-year
student Virginia Sapiro questioned
incessant alarms in Ball Residence
Hall, a result of work being done
with the alarms due to on-campus
construction, Chief of Campus Safety Bernard Alex said. She also called
Alex's attention to the slow response
time of officers to these alarms.
"If no one in Campus Safety is
taking [the alarms] as seriously as
we want them to take it, students
start lagging," one of the two resident advisors present, junior
Danielle Crawford, said.
The meeting turned to brainstorming potential solutions to
Campus Safety shortcomings; students suggested increased self-defense training, more call boxes on
campus and adding phones to isolated areas, such as the laundry
room in the Ball Hall basement.
The meeting only briefly addressed the impetus for the gathering—students' allegations that the
attempted break-in had been mishandled by Campus Safety.
After first-year student Kristin
Oase described to the committee
her relationship with the crime—
she and her roommate were witnesses and their friend called Campus Safety, which allegedly told
her to "go outside and get a description" of the suspect—Alex
took the group of students away
from the meeting to answer their
questions. Concerns centered
around the general public not being notified about the criminal attempt, a charge to which Alex responded that Campus Safety considered the action a prank, not a
threat to the community.
"No student was confronted,
no property was stolen," Alex said,
emphasizing that, regardless, the
incident was a crime and that Campus Safety suspects students because the perpetrators ran away
through the campus.
"Just because they're college
students doesn't mean it's less of a
threat," Oase responded.
The women also expressed
concern that after the fire escapes
were pulled down by the would-be
intruders, it took four days for them
to be returned to their proper positions. Alex said that the damage
was such that a specialist had to be
called in to fix them.
Executive Director of Human
Resources and Administrative Services Jan Merideth suggested that
the campus' communication had
lapsed, and called the town meeting in response.
Clubs to enjoy 61% of
requested finances
FUNDING
by Eva Sevcikova
QC News Editor
Nearly $44,400 was allocated
to clubs and organizations, including two independent entities, during a Council of Representatives
(COR) block funding meeting on
Monday, Feb. 25, satisfying over
61% of the clubs' financial needs.
For the first time, independent
funding was introduced, allowing
students and groups who are not
represented by an official campus
club, to request money to cover
their expenses, according to senior
COR Treasurer Prithvi Nobuth. As
the two examples of independent
funding requests, Flag Football was
allocated $1,307 while the Track
and Field Team walked away with
zero dollars.
Tossed salad
From spies to vaginas,
from fashion to Olympics,
Opinions has it all.
Opinions, Page 2
"According to the new rules,
individual students no longer have
to be members of an organized
club," Nobuth stated, adding that
COR wants to encourage people to
come forward with new ideas. "We
hope that this policy will make it
easier for people to come to COR to
ask for money."
Nobuth was very satisfied with
the results of the meeting. "This is
the largest dollar amount allocated
to clubs over the past three years,"
he said. " We also got a record high
number of clubs requesting money,
including eight new clubs."
"With such a demand for money, it is hard to satisfy everyone,"
junior COR President Jess Craven
said about the result of the meeting.
"COR is not the endless well that
some people think it is."
The Inter-Residence Hall Association (I.R.H.A.), which requested over $ 10,000, received zero dol
lars.
The decision not to allocate
money to I.R.H.A. was informed by
the fact that there is still about $8,000
left in the I.R.H.A. account, according to Nobuth. "Once [they are]
done spending their money, we will
give them more," he said. "But by
the end of the semester, they won't
be able to spend what they have,
and we didn't want to penalize other clubs by holding up $ 10,000. We
view dorm improvement as very
important and [I.R.H.A.] is more
than welcome to come and ask for
money in the future," Nobuth said.
Sophomore I.R.H.A. Representative to COR Marko Stankic understands the philosophy behind this
decision. "It is not a sign that COR
is not supporting us," he stressed.
"They do; although, I would have
enjoyed a small sign of financial
See FUNDING, page 6
REBECCA W0LF/QC MANAGING EDITOR
Listening device
discovered in
the QC office
CRIME
by Rebecca Wolf
QC Managing Editor
A maintenance worker discovered an electronic eavesdropping
device inside an electrical outlet
behind a sofa in the Quaker Campus (QC) newspaper office Thursday, Feb. 21.
Maintenance searched all outlets and light switches in the QC
on Monday, Feb. 25 and on Tuesday, Feb. 26, the outlets in the
Student Union and the offices of
the Council of Representatives
(COR), the Acropolis and Whittier College Radio were searched.
Director of Student Activities
Barnaby Peake also searched the
phones in the QC office on
Wednesday, but no other devices
were found.
There are no suspects or leads
as to who placed the device or
why it was placed.
"As far as I know, this is the
first 'bug' confirmed in a student
newspaper office," Mike Heistand
of the Student Press Law Center
based in Washington D.C. said in
the College Media Advisor's online message board.
The maintenance department
and the Security and Spy Outlet
store in Puente Hills believed the
device was homemade using parts
bought at a local store and took no
more than 10 minutes to install
inside the QC. However, Private
Investigator Thomas Barnes of Thomas Barnes and Associates in
Whittier said that the device was
too intricate to be homemade.
"[The device] works like a
mini FM radio station," said an
employee of the spy outlet store,
who wished to be identified only
as "Paul." "Whoever built it could
have been listening live or could
have set up a tape recorder to
record everything to listen to later."
According to Paul, the device
was designed to last no more than
a year because the individual components would burn out. He tested
the device at the store but it did
not work, and he believes the device was not functioning at the
time it was discovered.
"We don't yet know why that
device was there," said Barnes, a
retired detective. "There would
be no lawful reason, because anything recorded would not be admissible [in court]... it's definitely illegal."
The Whittier Police Department (W.P.D.) was called to the
scene on Monday but initially
chose not to file a report because
of a lack of any real leads. However, after pressure from local councilman Bob Henderson, W.P.D.
Chief David Singer said that there
See DEVICE, page 6
ISSUE 18 • VOLUME 88
Intimate desires
Secret confessions of daters,
losers and the devil himself.
Campus Life, Page 9
It's here!
Check out Britney Spears'
excellent adventure.
A&E, Page 13
LAX dominates
A team that keeps winning. We
really like that.
Sports, Page 16